In 1856, news of an ascetic carrying on discourses with local Súfí leaders that seemed to possibly be Bahá ' u ' lláh reached the family and friends.

On December 24, 2007, the Del Valle family announced they had reached a settlement with Power Fasteners that would pay the family $ 6 million.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

However, by the time he reached his teenage years his symptoms apparently waned and his family took some notice of his scholarly interests.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

The " classic " hillbilly stereotype – the poor, ignorant, feuding family with a huge brood of children tending the family moonshine still – reached its current characterization during the years of the Great Depression, when many mountaineers left their homes to find work in other areas of the country.

In October 1997, Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) reached agreement on an economic reform program aimed at macroeconomic stabilization and elimination of some of the country's most damaging economic policies, such as the National Car Program and the clove monopoly, both involving family members of President Soeharto.

Kepler and Tycho soon reconciled and eventually reached an agreement on salary and living arrangements, and in June, Kepler returned home to Graz to collect his family.

The Chouteau family operated under the Spanish license at St. Louis in the lower Missouri Valley as early as 1765, but it would be 1821 before the Chouteaus reached Kansas City, when François Chouteau established Chouteau's Landing.

The few families and genera of reptile that have reached Madagascar have diversified into more than 260 species, with over 90 percent of these being endemic ( including one endemic family ).

The Reg Grundy Organisation subsequently reached even higher levels of success with women's-prison drama Prisoner ( 1979 – 1986 ) on Network Ten, and melodramatic family saga Sons and Daughters ( 1981 – 1987 ) on the Seven Network.

Among these, according to the Financial Times, was Spain's rapidly growing trade deficit, which had reached a staggering 10 % of the country's GDP by the summer of 2008, the " loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners " and, also, as a part of the latter, an inflation rate which had been traditionally higher than the one of its European partners, back then especially affected by house price increases of 150 % from 1998 and a growing family indebtedness ( 115 %) chiefly related to the Spanish Real Estate boom and rocketing oil prices.

Open enrollment also refers to educational policies which allow residents of a state to enroll their children in any public school, provided the school has not reached its maximum capacity number for students, regardless of the school district in which a family resides.

The cost of the mostly open-ended fund reached $ 7 billion ( the average payout was $ 1. 8 million per family ).

The family first reached prominence in the late 17th century, on account of its connections with the Miloslavsky clan to which Tsar Alexis ' first wife belonged.

Godwin returned from exile in 1052 with armed forces and a settlement was reached between the king and the earl, with the earl and his family being restored to their lands and the replacement of Robert of Jumièges, a Norman whom Edward had named Archbishop of Canterbury, with Stigand, the Bishop of Winchester.

" Attendees of the 1906 meeting walked from Storer College to the nearby farm of the Murphy family, then the site of the historic fort where John Brown's quest to free four million enslaved African Americans reached its bloody climax.

When his condition reached mortal danger, he was taken back to his family home in Coupvray, where he died in 1852, two days after he had reached the age of forty-three.

The marriage of Charles VIII to Duchess Anne of Brittany had allowed the eventual return of his fiance, young Margaret, to Burgundy and the care of her step-grandmother the Dowager Duchess ; the Peace of Senlis, which returned her to her family, also returned her dowry of the Counties of Artois and Palatine Burgundy, and laid down that Duke Philip would take up personal rule in the following year when he reached age 16.

Clinton, along with a Zamora family friend named Alonso R. del Portillo, Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, and Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, reached an agreement with Cuba that would admit 20, 000 Cubans per year.

Instruments from the peak of the French tradition, by makers such as the Blanchet family and Pascal Taskin, are among the most widely admired of all harpsichords, and are frequently used as models for the construction of modern instruments.

In 1871, a Ministry of Rites was formed and Shinto shrines were divided into twelve levels with the Ise Shrine ( dedicated to Amaterasu, and thus symbolic of the legitimacy of the Imperial family ) at the peak and small sanctuaries of humble towns at the base.

With the leadership of the Borden family, the American Print Works ( later known as the American Printing Company ) became the largest and most important textile company in the City, employing thousands at its peak in the early 20th century.

The 1980s saw the peak of the dacha boom, with virtually every affluent family in the country having a dacha of their own or spending weekends and holidays at friends ' dachas.

This was the first in the family of hats, and was recognized by a high peak, a tear-drop shaped top, a short bill, and a small skirt that folds down to protect the ears in cold.

Although at their peak during the 19th century, the Fry family are still a very active family within England, specifically in Somerset where many current family members can trace their families geographical location to within Somerset as far back as 1200AD.

At his death, Conn's lands and family were in turmoil ; however, at the peak of his lengthy reign, he was the most powerful Irish king.

The 1980s saw the peak of the dacha boom with virtually every affluent family in the country having a dacha of their own or spending weekends and holidays at friends ' dachas.

On February 25, the revolution reached its peak and conclusion when Marcos, along with his family, friends and some supporters were taken by the US government and forced them into exile in the state of Hawaii on the United States, thus ending the 20-year Marcos military dictatorship and when Aquino took her oath as the new but first woman president of the Philippines.

Roy Rogers is a chain of US fast-food family restaurants, numbering over 650 at its peak, named after cowboy movie actor Roy Rogers.

The fastest 3G-based standard in the UMTS family is the HSPA + standard, which is commercially available since 2009 and offers 28 Mbit / s downstream ( 22 Mbit / s upstream ) without MIMO, i. e. only with one antenna, and in 2011 accelerated up to 42 Mbit / s peak bit rate downstream using either DC-HSPA + ( simultaneous use of two 5 MHz UMTS carrier ) or

The power of the family reached its peak in the period of Marquess Hešeri Sonin and his second son Duke Hešeri Songgotu and then declined after the death of Songgotu.

The Shimazu would become one of the families of Edo period daimyō to have held their territory continuously since the Kamakura period, and would also become, at their peak, the wealthiest and most powerful ) tozama family with an income in excess of 700, 000 koku.

The telethon featured an appearance by John Goodman, a native of Affton, Missouri who now calls New Orleans home and whose family was actually missing for a time during the storm's peak.

Similarly, Amagasaki ( Ama-ga-saki, Nun ’ s peak ) is generally written 尼崎, but can be written 尼ヶ崎, and Sen no Rikyū is written 千利休 ( here the particle is between the family and given name ).

The loss of Antiguan traditions can be ascribed to the lack of a French colonial past ( French islands of the Lesser Antilles retain much African-derived music and dance ), the influence of the powerful Codrington family, a relatively unified African ethnic identity, the lack of African immigration after the peak of slavery importation, the British military presence at Shirley Heights and a modern history of unstable economy and government.

The conflict between the Gaelic former ruling family and newly enriched interlopers formed the basis for Daphne du Maurier's novel Hungry Hill named for the mountain of the same name which is the highest peak in the Caha range.

Tsai Wan-lin () ( November 10, 1924 – September 27, 2004 ) was a Taiwanese businessman who, at the peak of his wealth in 1996, was considered to be the fifth richest person in the world, with a family net worth of US $ 12. 2 billion.

It was Musa's son Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi whose rule brought the family to the peak of its power.

Soon after that, the shops were purchased by the Babcock family who operated them until the 1930s, employing at their peak over 100 workers.

During the first decade or so of the 20th century, the peak became popular with a small number of self-styled ' mountaineers ', such as Boonah school teachers Harry Johns ( 1877 – 1943 ) and William Gaylard ( 1880 – 1930 ), Ipswich Technical College Principal R. A. Wearne ( 1870 – 1932 ), and some of the selectors who lived close by, such as the Doherty family at ' Lilydale '.

Mount San Antonio, along with the nearby peak known as Thunder Mountain, is currently home to the family owned and operated ski resort Mount Baldy Ski Lifts, the closest resort to Los Angeles.